Michael Moore Quotes

I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.

Michael Moore

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LiveTiredDemocracySocialismNeed

I didn't play basketball because I'd learned how to ice skate.

Joe Morton

BasketballIcePlayBecauseHow

I've been fascinated with all kinds of weapons my whole life, and as I have been able to afford to acquire pieces, here and there I started to collect.

Joe Perry

LifePiecesStartedHereWholeBeen

I don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv.

John Frusciante

WantRadioMTV

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.

Andrew Jackson

FearConfidenceGreatIntelligence

I love watching the Oscars and seeing everybody saying all that 'it's an honour just to be nominated' rubbish. Then you see their faces when the split screen comes up as the winner is announced - the losers are all smiling through gritted teeth and looking as if they just swallowed half a pound of soor plooms.

John Niven

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I went to college and did advanced electronical engineering, not really knowing what I wanted to do. It bored me to death, so I dropped out.

Michael Bisping

DeathCollegeMeEngineeringKnowing

Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation.

Tom Hodgkinson

WorkDayWritingReadingBurden

Everyone is taught the essentials of writing for at least 13 years, maybe more if they go to college. Nobody is taught music or tap dancing that way.

Tom Wolfe

MusicCollegeWritingNobodyGoWay

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

Mick Jagger

BusinessMyselfCreativeArtistKnow

I just love going out and playing my brother's songs.

Johnny Van Zant

LoveBrotherOutPlayingGoingJust

I enjoy theater just for the sheer excitement of it and the immediate response that you get, and how every night the audience is a little bit different; but then, it's expensive to work in N.Y., and stage work is limited, so you're just doing it for the art.

Dorian Missick

WorkArtNightDoingEnjoyYou

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.

Christopher Hitchens

MeBetterDownPredictHardOut

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